Mayo-Based Sauces
Mayo-based sauces are super easy and cheap to whip up on the fly at home, even if you're really going through it. There's, like, a million different ones, and most of them will work well for just about anything (spreads, dips, toppings, dressings, etc.).
If you're on the struggle sandwich diet, a mayo sauce will make your food taste like food. If you bought the cheap mayo and lived to regret it, adding extra ingredients is a great way to mask the worst of it. You can just make a jar of a mayo-based sauce and toss it in the fridge for a week. There's no real work involved. You just mix stuff together. It's great.
Ketchup-Mayo
This is a popular combination with a million different names. All of them are equally valid, except for “fry sauce.” It’s awesome with fries, but I wear normal underwear and will not call it “fry sauce.” That's not what it's called.
WHAT YOU NEED
- 1 part mayonnaise
- 1 part ketchup (or more or less, to taste)
- some salt or adobo to taste
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HOW-TO
- Just mix it up. It'll keep in the fridge for a while.
Burger Sauce
The quintessential Anglo-American mayo sauce. In-N-Out spread is objectively the best version of this condiment, so I reverse-engineered it. Tastes exactly like the packets.
WHAT YOU NEED
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise
- 2 tsp ketchup (or more, to taste)
- 1/2 small pickled cucumber, minced (Your favorite kind. I've used European fermented ones, Taiwanese ones, and jalapeño-dill dinosaur pickles. They're all good in their own ways!)
- some of the pickle brine, to taste
- optional: a tiny pinch of sugar (if your pickle brine isn't already sweet)
- onion powder to taste
- some salt or adobo to taste
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HOW-TO
- Just mix it up. It'll keep in the fridge for a while.
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TIPS AND TRICKS
- Hot Take: Mayo is good.